Is there a reason people who slit their wrists to pass on specifically do it in a bathtub?

[Fimbulvetr]

I don't understand why they're always both combined in the media that features a suicide method that includes cutting, so I was curious if anyone here knew.

 

[justpathetic]

Supposedly hot water lessens pain and I'd guess less mess for people to clean up

 

[Wolf Girl]

The idea is the hot water will keep the blood from clotting. It won't though.

 

[willow115]

Artistic depictions will have practical reasons and symbolic. Water is tied a lot to suicide and depression in media. They either go that route for romanticism, the dramatic and unrealistic pill od if they're lazy, or the violent, quick gunshot. The bath scenes are probably something unconscious and bizarre like gently stripping down naked to our truth and returning to the womb or something. Floating off, warm comforting solitary escape (we usually bathe alone), etc. Blood/water is symbolic.

 

[ladylazarus4]

Like wolf girl said, hot water will slow clotting (and, conversely, cold will speed it up). However, unless you actually cut the artery, you're not going to die, hot water or not. And cutting the artery is incredibly hard to pull off.